Ben Railton
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Considering History: This Constitution Day, Let’s Celebrate State Constitutions | The Saturday Evening Post (opens the original)
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The best of The Saturday Evening Post in your inbox! This series by American studies professor Ben Railton explores the connections between America’s past and present. On September 17th, 1787, the delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia signed the final draft of the U.S. Constitution, beginning the ratification process that would make this founding document the law of the land. On this year’s Constitution Day, there are many elements of that document we should be concerned abo
Considering History: We Still Need to Learn from These Education Reformers | The Saturday Evening Post (opens the original)
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The best of The Saturday Evening Post in your inbox! This series by American studies professor Ben Railton explores the connections between America’s past and present. Next week I begin a new semester of teaching, and with it my 22nd year at Fitchburg State University. I love and am very lucky to have this gig, but of course it has its challenges, many having to do with AI programs and use. There are various factors involved in the debates over AI in our classrooms and schools, but one pro-AI ar
Considering History: A Birthday Week Tribute to the Best of Charlottesville | The Saturday Evening Post (opens the original)
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The best of The Saturday Evening Post in your inbox! I’ve written a good bit in this column about my hometown of Charlottesville: from its histories of racist memorials and segregation to the contested changes in its neighborhoods and university to last year’s tribute to my late father. While those columns have tended to focus on harder hometown histories, my dad is far from the only inspiring figure I’ve highlighted: There are civil rights icons like Floyd and William Johnson and Paul Gaston an
Considering History: Does Remembering Injustice Erase America’s True Story…or Help Us Better Understand It? | The Saturday Evening Post (opens the original)
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The best of The Saturday Evening Post in your inbox! On July 4th, the Trump administration’s 18 months of critiques of the Smithsonian Institution culminated in a controversial document: the White House Domestic Policy Council’s 162-page report entitled “Saving America’s Story: How Ideological Capture at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History Erases Our Heritage.” The report presents, as a key piece of evidence for its argument, the Many Voices, One Nation exhibit’s ac
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